User:Natalie Keen

     My name is Natalie Keen.  I am retired from Government service and now live in Whakatane, Bay of Plenty.  During my service overseas, I spent 3-4 years in the New Zealand Embassy, Paris during which I had the opportunity to increase in a practical way my University-gained knowledge of the French language.  I was brought up in a Marist parish and have retained a special interest in the Order. I have always been keen to follow the lives of those priests I knew as a youngster as well as to meet and come to know other priests of the Marist Order. I am accordingly grateful for the opportunity to share a little of the story of the early Marist missionaries in the Pacific.